Adanac Park

Adanac Park

Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver

Invasive species disturb wildlife habitat, take over our gardens and parks and even pose safety risks.

Knotweed, hogweed, European fire ant, and other local invaders affect many aspects of human life including:

Food production

Recreation

Health

Transportation

Housing

Natural resource sectors

How do they impact your life?

Help us fight the alien invasion

The Invasive Species Council of Metro Vancouver is here to help fight the alien invasion!

Visit our native plant demonstration garden and headquarters at Adanac Park Fieldhouse, check out our resources, or attend an information session to educate yourself about our worst local invaders and how you can be part of the solution.

Burrard View Park

Burrard View Park

Lexie Owen

At Burrard View Park Fieldhouse, 650 North Penticton St

Lexie Owen is an interdisciplinary artist interested in sculpture, craft in the expanded field, social practice initiatives, and curatorial projects. She explores the way new understandings form when different systems of recognition collide.

From back alley walking tours with botanists to community sewing circles stitching maps and text, Owen investigates by making objects, forming societies, and intervening in public space.

Projects like the Collaborative Embroidery Society will serve as a jumping-off point for community engagement.

Hastings Community Park

Hastings Community Park

Hastings Community Little League

At Hasting Community Park, 3157 E Pender

Hastings Community Little League’s vision is to become a central hub of community engagement around youth sport – for both youth and their families – that becomes a model for other sports communities in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.

Hastings Community Little League strives to provide children with a safe, fun, and positive oriented baseball program that demonstrates the ideals of:

Good sportsmanship

Fair play

Teamwork

Dedication

Competition

Courage

Respect for others

Hastings Community Little League is a non-profit sports organization established in 1953 which provides baseball programs in five divisions for boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 12.

"Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights, the accumulations of a lifetime gather there.” Inspired by this text from Jeanette Winterson, the concept began as a collaborative performance between Szyndrowski and Thorn and has since developed into a larger artistic practice that navigates the intersections of music and dance, tradition and innovation, and composition and improvisation.

Through creative work and play with community members of all ages, the pair aim to develop methods to look within in order to look outwards in art and beyond.

Pandora Park

Pandora Park

Dance Troupe Practice

At Pandora Park Fieldhouse, 2325 Franklin St

Dance Troupe Practice is a movement based performance collective, creating work that combines dance, voice, video, and installation.

Committed to a deep exploration of the moving body and creative collaboration, they look forward to connecting community needs and interests to their own practices, to explore the connections between dance and everyday life in unexpected places.

Second Beach

Second Beach

Instant Coffee

Instant Coffee (IC) is a service-oriented collective of artists, curators, and designers based in Vancouver and Toronto.

Their installations, slogans, and branding campaigns invite social gathering and exchange through events, workshops, and informal gatherings.

With a self-aware sense of fun (note their slogan: “Instant Coffee: it doesn't have to be good to be meaningful”), IC plays on their real world namesake, fake coffee, while promoting their utopian belief in inclusiveness.

Strathcona Park

Strathcona Park

Village Vancouver

At Strathcona Park, 857 Malkin Avenue (at Hawks Avenue)

Attend programs, workshops, and events about producing, preserving, and preparing food. Share food and skills, and create collaborative food art with community partners in Strathcona. Create positive local responses to our climate change and food system challenges.

Village Vancouver has a long history of inspiring individuals, neighbourhoods, and organizations to build sustainable communities while having fun.

Parks and people: Innovative participation in public urban green space

In 2016, Sue Palmer was awarded a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship to undertake research into innovation in participation in public urban green space in three cities: Berlin, Germany, Portland, Orgeon, and Vancouver.